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Shakespeare's Biographical Data
Literacy Terms Related to Drama
The Globe Theater
Facts About the Real Caesar
Facts About England From Shakespeare's Time
100
Born in April 1564
What is Shakespeare?
100
one of the main divisions of a play or opera
What is an act?
100
built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company
What is the Globe Theater?
100
very little is known of this
What is Caesar's childhood?
100
city in England Shakespear moved to in his adulthood
What is London?
200
April 23, 1616
What is Shakespeare's death date?
200
two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
What is a couplet?
200
people who paid just a penny to watch a play at the Globe Theater
What are groundlings?
200
amount of times Caesar was married
What is three?
200
built on the site of Shakespeare's Gatehouse, and you can still visit it today
What is the Cockpit Pub?
300
Hamnet Shakespeare, Judith Quiney, Susanna Hall
What are Shakespeare's children?
300
every line is ten syllables
What is iambic pentameter?
300
rectangular platform that thrust out among the audience into the pit
What is the apron stage?
300
first woman with whom Caesar was known to have been involved
What is Cleopatra?
300
only bridge that connected the northern and southern sides of Elizabethan London
What is the London bridge?
400
Anne Hathaway
What is Shakespeare's wife's name?
400
usually, stanza or poem of four lines
What is a quatrain?
400
another name for the groundlings, especially in the summertime, who paid just a penny to watch a play,
What are stinkards?
400
play that Shakespeare wrote about Caesar
What is The Tragedy of Julius Caesar?
400
a sport that was universally loved across Elizabethan London, including the Queen herself
What is bearbaiting?
500
John Shakespeare and Mary Shakespeare
What are Shakespeare's parent's names?
500
the last six lines or a Petrarchan sonnet
What is a sestet?
500
shareholder who owned 12.5% of the Globe Theater
What is Shakespeare?
500
king of diamonds is meant to represent
What is Julius Caesar?
500
house bought by Shakespeare in 1613
What is the Gatehouse?